Spicy food has always been an interesting topic to me. You willingly (for the most part) eat something that will cause you a certain amount of pain, and you enjoy it enough to take another bite. I don’t quite understand it (I’m a chemist, not a neurologist), but there is one thing I know for sure: despite the pain, I love spicy food.

One of the very first things I did after we relocated to Austin, TX a few weeks ago is sign up for a Community Sponsored Agriculture (CSA) service. I’m all about supporting local agriculture and quality, organic produce, plus it’s so much fun to get a surprise vegetable every now and then that you wouldn’t normally find. So you can imagine how excited I was when my first CSA box included a special favorite of mine: watermelon radishes!

It’s almost two weeks into the New Year, and this is about the time that New Year’s resolutions begin to go south. You made a resolution to work out five times a week, but you got busy one day and skipped a workout; “I’ll make it up in the morning”, you tell yourself, but next thing you know three days have gone by and you haven’t gone back to the gym yet. Or you made a promise to yourself to eat healthier, eat more fruits & vegetables, and eat less junk; you only get one body after all, treat it like it deserves! But you gave in to a couple slices of pizza while out with your friends, or a couple cookies after dinner, or you went to brunch and just had to order some French toast (my personal weakness). Any of this sound familiar?

The new year is all about making resolutions, and I have decided that the perfect resolution for me is to finally break my mini-hiatus from CITK. First it was that I was in Israel visiting my family, then it was the packing, and then the relocating… Next thing I know it, two months have passed. But I am glad to report that I am officially back, reporting live from our beautiful new home in Austin, Texas, and today’s recipe is one of my lifelong favorites.